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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Orientalism Now, Part IV: The Latest Phase.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Arab oil boycott take place historically?
(a) 1969-1970.
(b) 1971-1973.
(c) 1973-1974.
(d) 1965-1967.

2. The author notes in Chapter 3 that "The first Orientalist congress was organized and held in Paris" in what year (261)?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1832.
(d) 1899.

3. What book was Flaubert writing when he died that was "a comic encyclopedic novel on the degeneration of knowledge and the inanity of human effort" (113)?
(a) The Search for Cultural Identity.
(b) Madame Bovary.
(c) Encyclopedia of Social Sciences.
(d) Bouvard et Pecuchet.

4. What name refers to the war between Egypt, Syria and Israel that mostly took place in the Sinai and the Golan Heights?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1965.

5. What word does the author define in Chapter 2 as "a set of references, a congeries of congeries of characteristics" (177)?
(a) Vernacular.
(b) Idiosyncrasy.
(c) Topos.
(d) Grate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what period of time was Leopold von Ranke's Weltgeschichte published?

2. When did Jacques Berque and Massignon publish a dialogue on "the Arabs" in Esprit?

3. When was the British and Foreign Bible Society founded?

4. Who wrote Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem, et de Jerusalem a Paris in 1810-1811?

5. Who wrote the novel Louis Lambert?

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